[AccessD] Weird Problem...for me anyhow

Bryan Carbonnell carbonnb at gmail.com
Wed May 16 08:27:02 CDT 2007


On 5/16/07, John Clark <John.Clark at niagaracounty.com> wrote:
> I have a user who has setup her own DB...good that she has an interest in Access...bad that she THINKS she is capable of doing this. I have had to bail her out before, and once again my help has been requested. OK, so maybe I got a little chip on my shoulder w/this one ;o)

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> I am about to tell them, "Here is your recovered database. You will need to re-enter the data you've lost. Sorry!" But I wanted to run it by this list first.
>
> Any ideas?!

Couple of Shots in the dark.

How about a Compact & Repair?

Failing that, create a new table with the same layout as the first,
then do an append from the corrupted table to the new table.

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Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com
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